Given name

Jayse

Jayse is a masculine given name.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Jayse isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1990. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Jayse through the years

Babies since 1880
2,205
2,175 boys · 30 girls
Most popular year
2014
242 babies
2025
29
#3,804 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−57%
Cooling
Boys Girls
05010015020002025Highest share 2014Boys 17Girls 0.0
Jayse in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1990–2025, per million births of each sex. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 29 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 3,804 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 57.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 237 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,722 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Jayse’s family of names

Jayse has a related form in Jase.

Walk Jayse’s family in the name graph

JayseJaiseJayzeJaseJaysse

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Similar names

If you love Jayse, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Jaece

“God is my salvation”

13Very rareCooling

>99% boys

Modern

Jayvier

13Very rareEasing

>99% boys

Modern

Jayandre

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Jayseon

0Not recently recordedCooling

>99% boys

Modern

Jaesun

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Jaison

20RareEasing

>99% boys

Modern

Rayfe

“a tough man”

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Jax

“resembling the hyacinth” · “the son of Jack or John”

65FamiliarEasing

99% boys · 1% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Jayse’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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